Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
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- A brief history of beards.
- Examining Hitler’s teeth.
- Flirting tips from the Victorians.
- The racist history of amusement parks.
- A history of America’s awful beer glass.
- The surprisingly intolerant history of milk.
- Victorians, train rides, and instant insanity.
- Debunking the myth of the chubby chaser.
- A story about sex dolls yesterday and today.
- A history of medicine and magic in Australia.
- The odd history of the first erotic computer game.
- Another story about sex dolls yesterday and today.
- How the C-section went from last resort to overused.
- The black woman who revolutionized menstrual pads.
- The Chinese Exclusion Act continues to affect the U.S.
- How snobbery took the spice out of European cooking.
- Candy aspiring, safety cups, and the history of children’s drugs.
- Cleopatra portrayals reveal changing perceptions of sex, women, and race.
Featured image caption: Free abortion on demand Every child a wanted child, every mother a willing mother: confront Ottawa Feb. 13. (Courtesy Library of Congress)
Jacqueline Antonovich is the creator and co-founder of Nursing Clio and served as executive editor from 2012 to 2021. She is an Assistant Professor of History at Muhlenberg College. Her current research focuses on women physicians, race, gender, and medical imperialism in the American West. Jacqueline received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2018.
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I look forward to your newsletter every week. Thanks for doing this roundup for us.